Weird Al Pays Tribute to Coolio After Resolving Feud With Late Rapper

"Weird Al" Yankovic has paid tribute to rapper and onetime foe Coolio, after the rapper died this week at 59 years old.

The passing of Coolio, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., was confirmed to Variety on Wednesday by his manager Jarel Posey. He was found by paramedics at a friend's house, according to TMZ, but a cause of death has not yet been confirmed.

As news of the star's death circulated and a host of fans and celebrities alike flocked to social media to express their condolences, Weird Al paid tribute to the musician with a poignant image.

Taking to Twitter, the parody artist, 62, shared an undated photo of himself and Coolio leaning in to share a warm embrace.

Captioning the heart-warming image, Weird Al wrote: "RIP Coolio."

The gesture drew attention, as Weird Al famously sparked the ire of Coolio for releasing "Amish Paradise," a parody of the rapper's 1995 chart-topping triple platinum hit single "Gangsta's Paradise."

After the spoof track's release, a feud with Coolio was sparked, as while the hip-hop star's managers had given the OK for the parody, Coolio said in a statement that he himself had not.

In response to Weird Al's tweet, a Twitter user shared a post from music writer Dan Ozzi, who said that he "got to interview coolio one time and you bet i asked him if he was over his beef with weird al."

He shared an excerpt from his 2014 Vice interview with Coolio, during which he asked the musician if he still had "beef with Weird Al."

"F*** no, man, I let that go so long ago," Coolio responded. "Let me say this: I apologized to Weird Al a long time ago and I was wrong. Y'all remember that, everybody out there who reads this s***.

"Real men and real people should be able to admit when they're wrong and I was wrong, bro. Come on, who the f*** am I, bro? He did parodies of Michael Jackson, he did parodies of all kinds of people and I took offense to it because I was being cocky and s*** and being stupid and I was wrong and I should've embraced that s*** and went with it.

"I listened to it a couple years after that and it's actually funny as s***. It's one of those things where I made a wrong call and nobody stopped me. That's one thing I'm still upset about—my management at the time. Somebody should've stopped me from making that statement because it was dumb. And I think it hurt me a little bit. It made me seem stupid."